Objective: To systematically review and analyse data from cohorts of people who inject
drugs (PWID) to improve existing estimates of non-AIDS mortality used to calculate mortality …

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review cohort studies of mortality among people who inject
drugs, examine mortality rates and causes of death in this group, and identify participant-and …

Background: Injecting drug use (IDU) and associated mortality appear to be increasing in
many parts of the world. IDU is an important factor in HIV transmission. In estimating AIDS …

Background: Injection drug users (IDUs) have estimated mortality rates over 10 times higher
than the general population; much of this excess mortality is HIV-associated. Few mortality …

Objectives. To estimate the excess mortality of injecting drug users (IDU) stratified by HIV
serostatus compared with the general population in Italy. To compare total and cause …

Abstract Introduction The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 074 study demonstrated a
positive effect of an integrated systems navigation and psychosocial counseling intervention …

Objective. To quantify mortality without AIDS diagnosis (pre-AIDS death) among HIV-
infected injecting drug users (IDU) and to compare it with that among homosexual men …

Aims To determine the impact of HIV infection on mortality over time among people who
inject drugs (PWID) in settings with free HIV/AIDS care. Design and Setting Prospective …

The impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and other risk factors on
mortality was studied in a cohort of Dutch injection drug users and drug users who did not …

Abstract Background and Aims During the past decades, people who inject drugs (PWID)
have been impacted by the development of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) to …